One of Stardock's big challenges has been localizing our games. GalCiv IV has over 180,000 words in it. That's a lot to translate. But that's not really the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that we are constantly adding new text to the game which makes it hard for our linguistics team to keep up. We typically use Trados for this sort of thing. It's very powerful but it is not fast. So I decided to write my own app called GC4TranslatorUI. ...
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When utilizing Stardock's AlienGPT, one might naturally ponder the question: which animals are the most sought-after choices for building a civilization around? Well, here's the answer. Nearly 40% of users opt for cats, followed by foxes, fish, dogs, snakes, and more. Animal Number of Mentions Percentage (%) cat 1445 30.90 fox 331 7.08 fish 320 6.84 dog 319 6.82 snake 258 5.52 bird 251 5.37 tiger 219 4.68 wolf 190 4.0...
Greetings! We are coming to the finish line for GalCiv IV: Supernova! Our once reasonable scope has, of course, exploded over the Summer as we got our hands into making this the best space 4X game we've ever made! The next major BETA update, 1.90 will be focusing on making the game more appealing to a much wider group of people. Galactapedia This feature is expected to expand significantly in the coming weeks. We're excited about its potential and...
Happy Saturday, all. I was checking out stuff to bore you with, and found the English translation an article which originally appeared in German on pcwelt.de (as you can tell from the screenshots which as jpegs or pngs weren't translated) with all these sundry proggies to help you when and if. After all, there's nothing like having the right hammer for that stubborn screw. The article is well organized : TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Windows installation, updates, and...
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Generally speaking, in GalCiv games there has been three types of players: The first player is the relatively new or casual player who finds the AI ridiculously hard and will post "The AI is cheating" (the AI doesn't cheat unless you make the settings super high). They say this because the AI is able to expand fairly quickly because it is quite good at scouting (the AI tends to build a lot more scouts than players) and finding planets. It has no idea where the planets are. The second...
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Had a HDD go down a couple days ago and its been a pain. At first my windows installation went corrupt after it couldn't boot with that drive, but that was easily fixed with system restore. So I've been trying to fish the unbacked data off the failed drive and I'm still at it. The closest I came to mounting it in Linux was with Linux Puppy, but the files were read only and I couldn't copy them. Basically I don't care much about the drive, just the data on it. I was hoping I could fish the files ...
The Webrunner a tale of time travel and warping reality to fight demons. The Webrunner is a secret a weapon a mystery. This book takes you through the tales of young Hezekiah who fights demons by illuminating his soul and atoning for his sins. He fights demons in the hospital because he has no choice but to fight for his life as he is in a state of psychosis not once but twice. The first instance there is a demonic shield that must be torn down by weaving in and through time and space in a...
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I use Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi and Maxthon browsers. Firefox works good, I like the way it updates and it is reliable. Vivaldi is the best fastest browser I have used and it has a lot of settings. Opera is the second fastest browser I have used. Maxthon is one I have been testing since June 2023. I like it so far and I have had no problems with it.
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